Sunanda K Datta-Ray

One of India’s leading journalists, Sunanda K. Datta-Ray spent many years in Singapore, as consultant with the Straits Times newspaper group, teaching at Nanyang Technological University and researching this book at the Institute of South-east Asian Studies. His more than fifty years in journalism also include stints in Britain (where he started his career) and the United States. He was Editor of the Statesman, and has written extensively for the International Herald Tribune and essays for Time magazine. His other books include Bihar Shows the Way; Smash and Grab: Annexation of Sikkim; and Waiting for America: India and the US in the New Millennium.

One hopes not, but it could be the shape of things to come. The redeeming feature is that Muslims are not alone in objecting to the Madhya Pradesh government invoking the National Security Act to book three men for cow slaughter.

In principle, India should back China in its attempts to obtain sophisticated technology from the United States. Whether this would be in India’s own strategic interest is, of course, another matter because despite the indulgence that George W Bush Jr.

If someone in Britain were to ask “For Whom the Bell Tolls” — the immortal words of the metaphysical poet, John Donne, to which Ernest Hemingway gave contemporary relevance — the answer would be the prime minister, Theresa May.

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